Burn Out & Overworked

How A Freelance Music Career Can Support Your Mental Wellness

Wow. This hit close to home. Especially looking at my short stint as a working musician in early 2000s.  The relentless need to work harder to prove something to all of the "naysayers" in my family.  There is so much of this article in me.

It also sound like some "burn outs" I have seen/ witnessed/ heard about in the Computer Incident Response field.  Especially those that work in a Security Operations Center or SOC.  As this role changes with work from home, some of these habits could be beneficial to those folks as well.

"Belafonte" Harry Belafonte

 The sheet was a little damaged, but the record looked OK to play. 

Matilda was a pick up compared to the other tunes. The whistling was out of sight.  This is much closer to my own association with Mr. Belafonte's music. 

The last song on this side is quite sad.

Side 2 

"Noah" starts with a preacher call and response rally. Using th e bible story of noah to bring context to the next piece.  It raised an eyebrow in my household to hear that coming from my vinyl all of a sudden. 

"Scarlett Ribbons" goes back to the crooner model. 

"Unchained Melody" is a tender and very sparse arrangement, but tons of vibrato on his voice. Too much for my taste. "Jump Down..." is a fun little tune. silly. the tempo speed up is nice. This is also the first song that had a skip on the record. Not bad.

"Sylvie" is more crooner. Another tune that shows how low to high, or high to low he can go in his range. Very smooth. The solo guitar with the building vocal harmony is nice.